# Retrieve Credentials from Software: PuTTY - **PuTTY** is an SSH client commonly found on Windows systems. - Instead of having to specify a connection's parameters every single time, users can store sessions where the IP, user and other configurations can be stored for later use. - While PuTTY won't allow users to store their SSH password, it will store proxy configurations that include cleartext authentication credentials. - To retrieve the stored **proxy credentials**, you can search under the following registry key for ProxyPassword with the following commands: ```powershell reg query HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions\ /f "Proxy" /s ``` - **Simon Tatham** is the creator of PuTTY, not the username for which we are retrieving the password.